Angel Invest Boston
317 episodes - English - Latest episode: 4 months ago - ★★★★★ - 181 ratingsIn the Decade of Biotech when there will be myriad opportunities to invest in angel-scale biotech startups. After decades of angel investing, I am focusing on the life science side of my portfolio and invite other angels to do the same. Here's why: https://www.labcoatventures.com/why-we-are-focused-on-early-stage-biotech/
I’m Sal Daher, host of the Angel Invest Boston Podcast. After immigrating to Boston as a child and attending Belmont High School, I studied engineering at MIT and Stanford. Decades of work in international finance followed. During that time, I invested in a handful of ventures founded by friends and acquaintances. Now, I’m a member of Walnut Ventures and MIT Angels and spend most of my time as an angel investor. Startups in my portfolio include: SQZ Biotech, Gelesis, Akili Interactive, Vedanta Biosciences, FineTune Learning, Concrete Sensors, Squadle, doDoc, Pixability, Mavrck, Viral Gains, Streamroot, XMOS, Alice's Table and others. Exits include: Exos (Microsoft), Rifiniti (KKR) and PIKA Energy (Generac).
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COVID-19 - Founder Stephan Smith of Meenta
June 17, 2020 05:30 - 19 minutes - 23.9 MBSal' Investment Syndicate: Click Here Meenta is the platform for sharing the use of high-end scientific equipment. Its founders, Gabor Bethlendy and Stephan Smith, are using resources they have built to help companies test employees for COVID. You can learn more about Meenta in the following interviews: Here is my interview of Gabor Bethlendy: https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ep-65/gabor-bethlendy-meenta Here is my interview of Stephan Smith: https://www.angelinvestboston.com/ep-90...
Keith Cline, Founder of VentureFizz
June 10, 2020 05:30 - 38 minutes - 45.1 MBSal's Investment Syndicate: Link to Sal's Syndicate In VentureFizz, Keith Cline has created a place where great tech companies and great tech talent meet. Check it out at: https://venturefizz.com/ I had a wide-ranging interview with this most affable and informed guest, here are some highlights: Sal Daher Introduces Keith Kline of Venture Fizz How VentureFizz Came About The VentureFizz Podcast Origin Story “Yeah, the drama of building a new company is just so absorbing. Lots of st...
COVID-19 - Alice Lewis of Alice's Table
June 03, 2020 05:30 - 17 minutes - 20.2 MBSal's Investment Syndicate: Link to My Syndicates An alum of Techstars and Shark Tank backed by Mark Cuban and Sara Blakely, Alice's Table was a promising startup. Then, the virus struck. For an events company this could have been fatal but Alice Lewis pivoted in an intriguing direction that is already showing strong traction. Hear this great story told by an inspiring founder. Here's Alice's full-length interview: From Techstars to Shark Tank
COVID-19 - Founder Ben Pleat on How COBU Is Contending with the Contagion
June 03, 2020 05:30 - 15 minutes - 17.8 MBJoin Sal's Syndicate: Click to Join Techstars alum COBU has been getting traction at leading apartment buildings for its ability to build community and thus lower tenant turnover. During the lockdown, it has been a social lifeline for apartment dwellers. Founder Ben Pleat returns to the podcast to tell the story. Listen to the founding story of COBU here: COBU: Community in Rentals
More Fundraising Secrets with Sal Daher, CFA
May 27, 2020 05:30 - 57 minutes - 66.4 MBMore secrets for founders raising money. Angel investor Sal Daher has suggestions to make your raise less painful. Highlights include: Sal’s Intro – New Fundraising Secret at the End Sal Daher’s Opening Statement on Funding for Startups Angels vs. VCs Walnut Ventures & MIT Angels Angel Groups in Boston Super Angel Joe Caruso and His Pet Peeve about Pitch Decks “…if you got it flaunt it.” “What I look for, my goal is a platform technology. Technology that's widely applicable ...
COVID-19 - Mark Bissell and the AllClear App for Finding Test Sites
May 20, 2020 05:30 - 21 minutes - 25.3 MBAllClear.App is the product of thirty plus tech veterans who gave their time to make it easier for people to get tested for COVID-19. Tech exec and angel investor Mark Bissell joins us to tell how he and his colleagues responded to the contagion that has paralyzed the world. Inspiring.
Jay Batson on Revenue-Based Finance
May 13, 2020 05:30 - 45 minutes - 52.6 MBJoin Sal's Syndicate: Click Here “So, there's been a hole in the market for that kind of company that's going to be a great company that's not venture-scale.” Repeat founder and super angel Jay Batson talks about his new passion: Revenue-Based Finance. He likes the possibility it opens up for startups that are great but not quite venture-scale. Learn what RBF does for founders and investors. Highlights include: Sal’s Intro Jay Batson’s Bio Acquia & Drupal Revenue-Based Finance I...
Russ Wilcox, Repeat Founder and VC - Pillar VC
April 29, 2020 05:30 - 35 minutes - 41.3 MBSal's Investment Syndicate: Click for Sal's Syndicate Page If you’ve used an Amazon Kindle you’ve used tech pioneered by Russ Wilcox and co-founders at E Ink. Russ is now a VC who remembers well the trials of being a founder and is a deep well useful knowledge about building startups. I learned a lot. Highlights include: brief bio of Russ Wilcox the founding story of E Ink the mistake of focusing on a financing strategy rather than product development burning $2 million per month ...
COVID-19 - Joe Caruso, Super Angel on How Startups Are Weathering the Crisis
April 27, 2020 16:00 - 47 minutes - 54.5 MBS a l ' s I n v e s t m e n t S y n d i c a t e : https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates Joe Caruso is treasured by tech founders for his kind support and sage advice. He's back to tell us how his startups are dealing with the COVID Crisis. Fun chat. Here's Joe's other interview which delves into how he became involved with founders. It's one of the most popular episodes I've recorded: Link to Joe Caruso's Story
COVID-19 Research Database with Martin Aboitiz
April 22, 2020 12:41 - 28 minutes - 33.3 MBS a l ' s I n v e s t m e n t S y n d i c a t e : https://www.angelinvestboston.com/our-syndicates "We have solved in two weeks problems that were completely intractable before..." Martin Aboitiz, CEO and founder of Healthjump and I explore the opportunity for scientific advancement from compiling a massive and accessible database of de-identified patient data made possible by the urgency COVID-19 created. Here's my interview with Martin on his entrepreneurial journey towards the fou...
COVID-19 - Startups and the Contagion
April 20, 2020 18:29 - 33 minutes - 38.9 MBThey met at Techstars Boston and were getting their startups off the ground and then COVID-19 struck. Here's what they're doing about it. Oguzhan Oyar, founder of Metrobi which does B2B deliveries, Jinesh Patel, founder of UptimeHealth which automates compliance for healthcare, Susan Conover, founder of LuminDX which is building a database for the diagnosis of skin conditions. Both Jinesh and Susan are alums of the podcast. Here are their full-length interviews: Jinesh Patel's Podcast...
Mike Nardella, CEO and Founder, Relevize
April 15, 2020 05:30 - 41 minutes - 48.4 MBSal's Investment Syndicate: Click Link to Sal's Syndicate Mike Nardella built an ad agency while an undergrad at Boston College. That work would eventually lead to the founding of Relevize, a platform that facilitates the interactions of big brands with their local partners. Trends in social media are presenting big opportunities for this Boston-based startup. Highlights from the interview: Sal Daher’s Intro Chance Encounter at Venture Lane Startup Hub Mike Nardella’s Bio What Mik...
Michelle Carazas, CEO and Founder - Host Events
April 01, 2020 05:30 - 56 minutes - 65.8 MBSal's Investment Syndicates:Link to Sal's Syndicate Part-time work to pay off student debt led Michelle Carazas to the opportunity she’s pursuing in her startup, Host Events. Her tech-enabled service provides insured and vetted bartenders to liven up corporate events at companies that seek to create a welcoming culture for Millennial employees. Fast and profitable growth, together with funding from Launchpad Venture Group are validating Michelle’s idea. Great interview with a compelling fo...
Jinesh Patel, Founder and CEO, UptimeHealth
March 18, 2020 05:30 - 55 minutes - 65.1 MBSal's Investment Syndicates: Investment Syndicates 101 The dispersal of medical equipment by the move to outpatient medicine has presented a huge opportunity for repeat founder Jinesh Patel. His startup, UptimeHealth, provides outsourced monitoring of the complex compliance requirements of equipment located at the proliferating outpatient facilities. UptimeHealth is also creating a marketplace for service technicians to reduce response times and costs. Jinesh’s affable manner and clear und...
Ashland Stansbury, CEO and Founder "Because Intelligence: Belief Marketing Platform"
March 04, 2020 06:30 - 49 minutes - 56.8 MBInvest with Sal's Syndicate: Sal's Syndicates “The biggest thing that we learned is that 78% of them were struggling to share those stories with their consumers, the biggest reason being a fear of feeling inauthentic.” “What do I mean by the organic model? I mean that the influencers we're engaging for these brands are not paid.” Ashland Stansbury, age 23, is building a new category with her startup, Because Intelligence. Belief marketing helps brands create genuine connections with th...
Stephan Smith, Founder & CTO - A Marketplace for Science
February 19, 2020 06:30 - 53 minutes - 61.4 MBInvest with Boston's Top Angels: Sal's Syndicates “Their internal users will see that their access time to an instrument goes down. They can get on it sooner, which is counter-intuitive, but it is reality.” What if scientists could plan and run experiments much faster? Meenta’s software platform is making the use of high-end research equipment far more efficient. Co-Founder & CTO Stephan Smith is excited by the massive opportunity his startup is addressing. Highlights include: Sal Dah...
Oana Manolache, Founder - Introvoke: Live-Streaming Remade
February 05, 2020 06:30 - 52 minutes - 60.8 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Sal's Syndicates Creating new ways to experience startup events has led Oana Manolache to found Introvoke, a streaming service tailored to this growing space. Relying on her work at HP, Oana is getting strong traction from organic growth. A great interview with a compelling immigrant founder. Highlights include: Oana Manolache Bio & Introvoke Introvoke “…we take engagement a step further. So, we have an open chat where people from all over the w...
Christian Magel, Repeat Founder, Venture Lane Startup Hub
January 22, 2020 06:30 - 1 hour - 74.7 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Syndicates Lessons from a failed IPO led Christian Magel to great success in his own businesses. Now he’s built a shared work space applying those valuable lessons. A bravura interview recorded live at Venture Lane Startup Hub. Highlights include: Introduction to the Podcast and the Guest, Christian Magel Christian Magel Bio Sal Daher Explains How Nell Meosky Luo Connected Him to Venture Lane How Venture Lane Came About The Value of Bein...
Justin Real, Founder and CEO, Realplay: Sports Video Reinvented
January 08, 2020 06:30 - 47 minutes - 109 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates: Learn About Sal's Syndicates Making the capture of high school sports video easy and affordable is the mission of Realplay. Founder Justin Real explains the business and his motivations to get into it. Fun and insightful conversation with an energetic and focused founder. Highlights include: Shoutout to Podcast Listener and Walnut Member Erik Bullen for Suggesting Justin Real as a Guest Justin Real Bio What Realplay Does “Get...
Ed Goluch, Scholar & Founder - Diagnosis in Minutes
December 25, 2019 06:30 - 1 hour - 139 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Investment Syndicates The brilliant son of immigrants discovers a way of identifying and counting bacteria that could upend the world of diagnostics. Listen to this engrossing interview with professor and founder Ed Goluch of QSM Diagnostics. Highlights include: QSM Diagnostics Is What Jeff Behrens Calls a “Scrappy Biotech” Ed Goluch Bio QSM’s Mission: Identify & Quantify Bacteria Present in a Sample in Minutes “No one wants to be the five...
Jeff Behrens, Founder, CEO, Scholar - The Gap in Biotech Funding
December 11, 2019 06:30 - 54 minutes - 125 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Investment Syndicates How to fund scrappy biotech startups is foremost on Jeff Behrens’ mind. He was CEO if a startup that raised $20 million in funding but not one cent from VCs. An invaluable interview for anyone thinking of starting or investing in a life science company. Highlights include: Jeff Behrens Studied Philosophy at Harvard but Stumbled Upon Entrepreneurship: Renaissance Man for the 21st Century MIT/Harvard Medical School Collabor...
Chris Selland, CEO & Angel - DipJar: Frictionless Giving
November 27, 2019 11:00 - 56 minutes - 130 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Tech Angels: Our Syndicates DipJar makes charitable giving fast and compelling. 8,500 devices are deployed to 4,500 clients and the business is set to scale fast. My interview with Chris Selland, CEO was an excellent opportunity to learn more about this exciting company just after I invested. Interview highlights include: Sal Introduces Chris Selland, CEO of DipJar The Story of DipJar DipJar Started Out as an Easy Way to Tip Waiters – But the Economics ...
Jason Calacanis, Super Angel & Podcast Host
November 13, 2019 06:30 - 49 minutes - 56.9 MBLearn About Sal's Syndicates: Link to Sal's Syndicate Page Silicon Valley's angel-investing phenomenon Jason Calacanis is our guest. Hear how he turned $700K into a portfolio worth $100 million. We had an inspiring conversation about building companies and investing in them. Highlights include: Sal Daher Introduces Jason Calacanis as his Guest on Angel Invest Boston How Jason Built the Stellar Team that Makes His Success Possible Sequoia Capital Picked Jason Calacanis to Scout for P...
Chuck Eesley, Stanford's Startup Prof - Evidence-Based Investing
October 30, 2019 05:30 - 1 hour - 73.4 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates: Click to Learn More Which Founding Teams Succeed? Are Founders Born or Made? Can Innovation Be Crowdsourced? How Many Jobs Do MIT & Stanford Add to the Economy? Blockchain for the Supply Chain? Chuck Eesley, Stanford's Startup Prof Addresses These Questions and More. Highlights include: Introduction Professor Charles Eesley Bio The Traumatic Founding Experience Shivang Dave, PlenOptika & Entrepreneurs in Poor Countries How ...
Will Foussier, Founder & CEO "Ace-Up: Executive Coaching Re-Invented"
October 16, 2019 05:30 - 46 minutes - 54.1 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Syndicates - Get Qualified The need to re-skill is essential for workers confronting AI with obsolescent knowledge. Techstars alum Ace-Up is addressing this problem with a software platform that makes executive coaching more accessible and accountable. Founder Will Foussier opened for us a fascinating window into this important but obscure industry. Highlights include: Will Foussier a young Frenchman who studied in France and Switzerland, had st...
Sylvain Bureau, Professor of Entrepreneurship "Art Thinking in Business"
October 02, 2019 05:30 - 55 minutes - 63.8 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Check Out Our Syndicates A professor of entrepreneurship in Paris who discovered a way to use art to help business people think more creatively, Sylvain Bureau met his unlikely collaborator at a wedding. The product of this chance encounter, Art Thinking, has gained acceptance in boardrooms around the world. My sound engineer Raul Rosa really liked this episode. I did too. ESCP Europe, where Sylvain Bureau teaches, is the first business school. It was...
Phillip Lachman, Angel Investor "Young Angel"
September 18, 2019 05:30 - 44 minutes - 50.6 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Click Here to Learn About Our Syndicates Still in his thirties and still working full-time, Phillip Lachman is a leader at Walnut Ventures. How this startup exec finds time to invest as an angel is a remarkable story. Clever, articulate and full of good cheer, Phillip is always a delightful interlocutor. Fun episode! Highlights: How Phillip leverages his angel network and modern means of communication to work full-time and still be an active ange...
Nancy Briefs, CEO & Co-Founder - "AltrixBio: Target Diabetes"
September 04, 2019 05:30 - 53 minutes - 61.7 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Syndicates Seasoned entrepreneur Nancy Briefs on her startup’s daring swing at Type 2 diabetes. AltrixBio is creating a pill that simulates the benefit of the best gastric bypass surgery: remission of diabetes in 80 percent of cases. With co-founders Jeff Karp and Ali Tavakoli, she is re-purposing an existing treatment with a great safety profile to address this daunting problem. Highlights include: Nancy Briefs, co-founded 7 companies and manag...
Ben Pleat, Founder & CEO "Cobu: Community in Rentals"
August 21, 2019 05:30 - 36 minutes - 41.9 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Link to Our Syndicates Barely two years out of Harvard, founder Ben Pleat of Cobu has owners of premier apartment buildings excited by the community-creating activities that make their properties more desirable places to live. Owners spend heavily on making the physical spaces attractive but are frequently frustrated by tenant turnover that averages 50 per cent per annum. Cobu helps develop a sense of belonging that increases tenant satisfaction and l...
Gillian Isabelle, Scientist & Founder "Enlivity: Making Cancer Therapy Bearable"
August 07, 2019 05:30 - 47 minutes - 55.3 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Syndicates Scientist and intrapreneur Gillian Isabelle, PhD, founded Enlivity (https://enlivity.com/) to make chemotherapy more bearable for cancer patients. The first product is a supplement invented by an oncologist that helps prevent sores from forming in the mouths and digestive tracts of patients receiving chemotherapy, a problem that can delay life-saving treatment. A fun interview with an infectiously affable guest. Gillian Isabelle studied...
Nell Meosky Luo & Dan Toffling - "Folia: Enabling Precision Care"
July 24, 2019 05:30 - 43 minutes - 49.8 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels: Learn More About Our Syndicates Two young founders on a mission to get valuable data about complex illnesses which are not now easily captured. Nell Meosky Luo and Dan Toffling of Folia Health tell the story of how their startup came together and where it’s headed. Highlights include: Nell Meosky Luo bio. Dan Toffling bio. What Folia Health does. Patients dealing with complex or chronic illnesses possess a wealth of data that is not now tran...
Adam Martel & Christopher Mirabile "Super Founder + Super Angel"
July 10, 2019 05:30 - 46 minutes - 53.1 MBRepeat founder Adam Martel went to work for Babson College as a major gifts fundraiser in order to get his MBA for free. While at Babson he identified the problem Gravyty is addressing and met his co-founder Rich Palmer. Gravyty attracted early support from Christopher Mirabile’s LaunchPad Venture Group. The company just completed a $2 million plus raise to ramp up its growth. A really sparkling interview with two outstanding leaders. Adam Martel, former coach, and full-time fundraiser at a...
Jeff Arnold, Super Angel & Founder - "How to Make Money in Biotech"
June 26, 2019 05:30 - 59 minutes - 67.9 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Our Syndicates To super angel Jeff Arnold the way to make money in biotech is to make few but highly researched bets and then back them to the hilt. His remarkable record is hard to argue with. The interview takes us from his student days at MIT through his various startups and investments; a tour de force. His approach has much to teach angels and founders. Sal opens by talking about how he delights in the promising companies that come from Boston’s ...
Susan Conover, Consultant & Founder - “LuminDX – AI for Skin”
June 12, 2019 05:30 - 43 minutes - 50.2 MBSal's Investment Syndicates: Learn More About Our Syndicates Engineer and consultant Susan Conover’s struggle with skin cancer inspires her to apply AI to help us understand what’s going on with our skin. This determined founder has made considerable headway in building the most valuable asset an AI startup can have: a strong, proprietary data set. A fun interview with a dynamic founder. Highlights include: Sal crows about his investment in Gelesis, a company that just got FDA approval ...
Marlene Boyaner & Doug Bates in Ask an Angel 3
May 29, 2019 05:30 - 1 hour - 83 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Link to Our Investment Syndicates Two of Boston’s most active angels, Marlene Boyaner of Golden Seeds and Doug Bates of Walnut Venture, talk to Sal Daher about angel investing, fundraising, building a startup and various other topics. The panel takes challenging questions from an audience of startup founders. Highlights include: Marlene Boyaner bio. Doug Bates bio How Marlene went from intrapreneuring at CIBC & Capital One to angel investing. ...
Steve Shapiro, CEO & Founder "Miracle-Working CEO"
May 15, 2019 05:30 - 57 minutes - 65.7 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates: Our Investment Syndicates Page Building a business in education is hard but Steve Shapiro has beaten the odds several times. His latest accomplishment is as CEO of FineTune Learning which is set to grade essays from 3.6 million students taking the CollegeBoard's AP Exams starting in July of 2019. Founded by brilliant Maine educator Ogden Morse, FineTune Learning is a platform using software to facilitate human grading of essays at sca...
Shivang Dave, CEO & Founder, "PlenOptika: Vision for India & Beyond"
May 01, 2019 05:30 - 43 minutes - 50 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Learn About Our Syndicates How his grandfather succeeded despite being blind inspired Shivang Dave, Ph.D. to change the world. As an accomplished bioengineer and a founder, he aims to bring high-quality eye exams to the masses in India with a new device. The Madrid-MIT M+Visión Fellowship was crucial to building a capable and cohesive founding team for PlenOptika. Shivang was a cheery and inspiring guest; great interview! Some highlights: Shivang D...
Brendan Dowdall, CEO & Founder "IoT in Construction"
April 17, 2019 05:30 - 40 minutes - 47.1 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Learn About Our Syndicates From studying Ancient Greek to building a business, founder Brendan Dowdall has traveled an interesting path. Construction is a staid industry but Brendan is revolutionizing it with data. Concrete Sensors’ innovative devices sit in concrete and transmit data. The payoff is already evident in time savings and improvements in quality experienced by the industry’s biggest players. As their data set grows, Concrete Sensors hopes ...
Emre Sarbak & Çağrı Zaman - “AI Helping the Blind”
April 03, 2019 05:30 - 39 minutes - 45.9 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Learn About Our Syndicates Two friends from Turkey are bringing the latest advances in AI to people with visual impairments. Emre Sarbak was a consultant and a successful social entrepreneur. Çağrı Zaman was an architect but is now completing his PhD at MIT’s Media Lab in computer vision. Their startup Mediate is building practical tools to help people with reduced vision navigate the world. Topics covered include: Sal talks briefly about portfolio ...
Lucinda Linde, Engineer, Consultant, VC, Angel
March 20, 2019 05:30 - 52 minutes - 61.2 MBJoin Boston's Top Angels in Our Syndicates: Learn About Our Syndicates Upon graduating in the upper strata of her engineering class at MIT, Lucinda Linde was promptly accepted at Harvard Business school. She worked as an engineer in two successful tech companies, one of which was co-founded by Clayton Christensen of “Innovator’s Dilemma” fame. Her incisive intellect and practical outlook were prized by giants such as HBS’ Howard Stevenson (Link to Howard Stevenson's Interview - Our Most Do...
Gabor Bethlendy, CEO & Founder, "Meenta: The Workflow of Science"
March 06, 2019 06:30 - 41 minutes - 47.7 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels: Our Syndicates Science is broken. Vast increases in people and money applied to scientific inquiry have failed to raise the rate of discovery. Among the reasons for this is that the workflow of labs is firmly stuck in the 1990s. Repeat founder Gabor Bethlendy is tackling this huge problem by creating Meenta.io, a platform to allow researchers to plan and execute their experiments via an online interface. Gabor is tenacious and energetic. He’s rec...
Jack Huntress, CEO & Founder of HomeBinder, "Chainsaw Jack"
February 20, 2019 06:30 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Link to Our Syndicates Page Action Jack Barker move over! Chainsaw Jack Huntress is the real deal. CEOs don’t get more dynamic than this geologist turned founder. Jack's startup, HomeBinder offers invaluable tools to help homeowners manage and record work done on their most valuable asset. It’s getting real traction via home inspectors eager to help home buyers. Breaking News: HomeBinder is in Techstars! Special mention in this episode: Ed Hosepian ...
Marcos Araujo, CEO & Founder of Esportudo
February 13, 2019 06:30 - 49 minutes - 57.2 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels: Link to Our Syndicates Page Esportudo.com is creating new ways for sports fans in Latin America to engage with their sport. Founder Marcos Araújo, whose parents came to the Boston area from Brazil, is leveraging his background in digital media to address a huge unmet need. His website now gets 20 million visits a month and is growing. Brands love the opportunity to engage with the Latin community in an effective way. Marcos Araújo’s parents immigr...
Sam Bogoch, CEO & Co-Founder of axle.ai
February 06, 2019 06:30 - 52 minutes - 60.2 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Click Here to Learn More Sam Bogoch’s company, axle.ai, helps clients with massive video files make sense of the content they have. The accumulation of video content is going way beyond the traditional broadcast networks and includes universities, large enterprises not in the entertainment industry, churches, sports venues etc. Video has yet to migrate to the cloud. It still sits in hard drives. The conversation with this brilliant interlocutor expan...
Bryanne Leeming, CEO & Founder - "A Passion for Action 2"
January 30, 2019 06:30 - 35 minutes - 41 MBAccredited Investors, Invest Alongside Boston's Top Angels: Link to Our Syndicates Page Star founder Bryanne Leeming is back to update us on all the exciting stuff Unruly Studios has been doing. Alexa Accelerator, Inc. Magazine feature, adoption by the City of Somerville and more. Listen to this scrappy young founder who’s done a lot with very little. Topics include: What they learned at Amazon’s Alexa Accelerator that is run by Techstars. How they came to be featured in Inc. Magazin...
Victor Santos, CEO & Founder "DACA Kid, Googler, Founder"
January 23, 2019 06:30 - 45 minutes - 52.2 MBAccredited Investor? Check Out Our Syndicates: Link to Syndicate Page DACA recipient, Berkeley grad, and a Googler, Victor Santos is not a typical startup founder. His Boston-based startup, Airfox is addressing a huge problem: access to affordable financing in Latin America. Through a partnership with one of Brazil’s leading retail lenders, Airfox is able to gather data that enables lower-cost lending in a country where consumers routinely pay interest rates of 400% per annum. Highlights...
Carlos Castro-Gonzalez, Scientist & Founder "To Save 4000 Lives a Year"
January 16, 2019 06:30 - 49 minutes - 57.4 MBAccredited Investors, Join Boston's Leading Angels in Our Syndicates: Learn More About Our Syndicates Brilliant Spanish postdoc, Carlos Castro-González, goes to MIT’s “Magic Wand” lab, and joins a superb international team to address an important medical problem. Leuko, their startup, now has a device and software that can tell when cancer patients are becoming immuno-compromised. Leuko’s product has the potential of saving 4,000 lives and $1.5 billion every year by cutting in half opportu...
Larry Sullivan, "Priest, Harvard Prof & Founder"
January 10, 2019 02:40 - 46 minutes - 53.3 MBInvest Alongside Boston's Leading Angels: Learn About Our Syndicates A Renaissance man still lives in our times. He’s been a priest, a Harvard prof, a non-profit exec and he’s now a founder. The startup Larry Sullivan helped found has built a platform on which C-level executives implement strategic initiatives. The proof of the pudding is that Chiefofstaff.com’s platform has been adopted by some of the biggest names including Deloitte. Larry is a charming guest. His vast knowledge and d...
Federico Cismondi, Founder "From Postodoc to doDoc"
January 02, 2019 06:30 - 46 minutes - 53.4 MBSome of our most interesting founders are immigrants. That is certainly the case with Federico Cismondi, a bioengineer from MIT. His path began at the foothills of the Andes and has led Federico and his co-founders to build a company, doDoc that is radically changing how the world’s technology leaders handle complex documents. This was a scintillating interview. Highlights include: doDoc is not your grandfather’s Google Docs, it’s more like Google Docs on super duper steroids. doDoc all...
Amanda Drobnis, Founder - "Miracle Cure for Race Horses"
December 19, 2018 06:30 - 29 minutes - 34 MBAmanda Drobnis has a technology that facilitates the use of tissue from animal placentas to regenerate tissue in other animals. The procedure, known as a placental allograft, is gaining acceptance in human medicine. Amanda plans to translate that trend to the veterinary space. I met Amanda at a mentoring session at The Capital Network (TCN), a really valuable institution that helps founders and investors. Some of the highlights of the interview include: Intro and a Shout Out to The Capi...